Pediatrics
Consumer health: Kids and swimming safety
For many people, the hot summer days are often spent swimming at a lake or pool.
Jun 1, 2022
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News tagged with middle ear
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Middle ear fluid buildup is common in young children on ventilators, new study finds
Babies and toddlers who need a tracheostomy—a tube surgically inserted into their windpipe to help relieve breathing problems—are at a high risk of accumulating fluid behind their eardrum when on a ventilator. That's ...
Apr 4, 2022
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Surgery
Update to clinical practice guideline on tympanostomy tube surgery for children
The American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Foundation (AAO-HNSF) published the Clinical Practice Guideline: Tympanostomy Tubes in Children (Update) today in Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery. Tympanostomy ...
Feb 9, 2022
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Health
Doctors less attuned to patient history are more likely to make diagnostic mistakes
If Jen didn't fight to convince her doctors something was seriously wrong with her, there could have been fatal consequences.
Feb 3, 2022
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Microbiome discovery could help save kids' hearing
Bacteria found in children's upper respiratory systems could help fight chronic middle ear infections, the leading cause of preventable hearing loss and deafness in Indigenous communities.
Nov 8, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
A spike in ear infections this summer after COVID-19 restrictions lifted is explained
Ear pain is one of the most common reasons that young children go to the doctor, and acute otitis media—which means "middle ear infection"—is the most frequent cause for the use of antibiotics in children under 5 years ...
Sep 21, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Have you heard? Middle ear, mastoid harbor SARS-Cov-2 and may pose risk for medical staffs
A team of otolaryngologists and pathologists at Johns Hopkins Medicine has confirmed that SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus behind the current COVID-19 pandemic, can colonize the middle ear and mastoid region of the head ...
Jul 29, 2020
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Surgery
Medical Minute: Eustachian tube dilation offers safer relief from dysfunction
When the Eustachian tube connecting the back of the nose and middle ear becomes inflamed, infected or blocked, people can experience pain, discomfort and possible hearing loss.
Nov 7, 2019
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Sound deprivation in one ear leads to speech recognition difficulties
Chronic conductive hearing loss, which can result from middle-ear infections, has been linked to speech recognition deficits, according to the results of a new study, led by scientists at Massachusetts Eye and Ear and published ...
Sep 6, 2019
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Medical research
First smartphone app that can hear ear infections in children
Ear infections are the most common reason that parents bring their children to a pediatrician, according to the National Institutes of Health.
May 15, 2019
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